{"id":8723,"date":"2020-08-04T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8723"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:08:44","slug":"symptom-relief-is-possible-in-elderly-dying-covid-19-patients-a-national-register-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/symptom-relief-is-possible-in-elderly-dying-covid-19-patients-a-national-register-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Symptom Relief Is Possible in Elderly Dying COVID-19 Patients: A National Register Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"48\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Strang et al. used the Swedish Re<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">g<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ister of Pal<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">li<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ve Care, which has national coverage, to compare\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptoms and symptom control\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the last week of life\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among patients dying of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in nursing homes and hospitals (n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">90)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">registered deaths in similar settings in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2019<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">46,698)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They found breathlessness was more common in COVID-19 patients than the reference population, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in hospitals than\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nursing homes. Relief<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of breathlessness, anxiety, delirium, and death rattles were less successful in COVID-19 patients than the reference population<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Complete\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">relief was\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">more common in nursing homes than hospitals for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">breathlessness,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">anxiety<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and pain.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Strang et al. (July 2020). Symptom Relief Is Possible in Elderly Dying COVID-19 Patients: A National Register Study. Journal of Palliative Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/jpm.2020.0249\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/jpm.2020.0249<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strang et al. used the Swedish Register of Palliative Care, which has national coverage, to compare\u00a0symptoms and symptom control\u00a0in the last week of life\u00a0among patients dying of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0in nursing homes and hospitals (n=390)\u00a0to\u00a0registered deaths in similar settings in\u00a02019\u00a0(n=46,698).\u00a0They found breathlessness was more common in COVID-19 patients than the reference population, and\u00a0in hospitals than\u00a0in\u00a0nursing homes. Relief\u00a0of breathlessness,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/symptom-relief-is-possible-in-elderly-dying-covid-19-patients-a-national-register-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-8723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8724,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8723\/revisions\/8724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8723"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}